Research On The Music Of Ghostfeed Ritual Of The Eight Immortals Temple (Ba’xian Temple)

Nowadays,Ghostfeed Ritual is known a lot in the taoist religion and in folk recipe.From now on,although there is a lot research focused on the music in taoism and on the Ghostfeed Ritual of the religious studies, there is still no one by now to spot on music and study it in the context of ceremony.this article’s object is the temple of eight immortals—one of the most important taoist temple in the northwest and nobody in the academic circles has researched it by now—and Ghostfeed Ritual this taoist temple did,and this article talked about issues about the music and the ceremony.This article include an introduction and four chapters.the introduction explained the reason why 1 chose this topic,my thought and the method 1 used, the fieldwork I did and the predecessors’effort, and the overall arrangement of the article.the first chapter gave a history judgment of vertically traced the history of Ghostfeed Ritual and horizontally cleared the relationship with the Ghostfeed Ritual of Buddha.In this way we can examine the Ghostfeed Ritual in the full context;chapter two made a full record of the Ghostfeed Ritual in the temple of eight immortals,trying to present the whole picture of the ceremony,and also describing the shape of the music according to the order of the ceremony. All these records are materials for later analysis;chapter three focused on the music in the ceremony,and did the analysis on the basis of the category already had of the temple of eight immortals,and see the differences of these music;chapter four aims to analyze the distribution of different shapes of music in the ceremony.After discussing the relationship between different shapes of music and the music in the context of ceremony,I judged the specific music’s function of religion,then discuss the religiousness of the music.